Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sorbile

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sor-bile
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Fit to be drunk or sipped.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[…] he rejects, also, Lavoisier's hypothesis, who supposes that metallic substances calcined, contain dephlogisticated air; whereas, according to Mr. Lubbock, they contain only the basis of dephlogisticated air, that is the sorbile principle."
"By dint, however, of some puzzling, and cross-examination of the garçon, I discovered that la soupe is school French, and that the proper appellation of sorbile esculents is potage."

Etymology

From Latin sorbilis, from sorbere (“to suck in, to drink down”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: sorbilis

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more sorbile (comparative) most sorbile (superlative)

Questions

What does sorbile mean?: Fit to be drunk or sipped.
Where does sorbile come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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